Thanksgiving was biggest day ever for Instagram as Americans uploaded 226 photos per second

If the day was anything like millions of other Americans' this year, it was dually spent photographing and instantly uploading those snapshots to Instagram at a record-breaking rate of 226 photos per second.

Reporting their biggest day for picture uploads yesterday, the photo sharing site said they saw over 10 million photos using Thanksgiving-themed captions allowing them to count them all.

Lots to share! Tallying the number of Instagram photos uploaded yesterday, by using hashtags like #Thanksgiving, the photo sharing site reported a new record of more than 10 million uploads

'Overall, the day broke all Instagram records as we saw the number of shared photos more than double from the day before, making it our busiest day so far,' they wrote in a blog posting on Friday.

Seen in a dramatic peak of 226 photos per second, the company reported the most uploads at 12.40pm PST, or 3.40pm EST.